Because things CAN always get weirder at Toronto City Hall. Famous WWE wrestler, the Iron Sheik showed up to City Hall challenging Mayor Rob Ford to an arm wrestling match.
@briandjohnson Well-placed sources say the 2nd #RobFord video shows the unthinkable. He's going to need a bigger basement.
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oh dear sweet jesus. Please never release that. The last thing the world needs to see is a 400lb man an inch away from a heart attack sweating profusely for 3 minutes on top of some poor girl.
Someone has compiled an ongoing Rob Ford transgressions catalogue, for those of you wondering if he's a good mayor who happens to do crack.
14 is especially hilarious, from 2010
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Ford offers to help an ill man “score” the powerful painkiller OxyContin in a taped phone conversation: “I’ll try, buddy, I’ll try. I don’t know this ####, but I’ll ####ing try to find it. Why don’t you go on the street and score it? ####, you know, I don’t know any drug dealers at all.”
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I admit I have been sucked in by the scandal and gossip. Let's see how big this trainwreck gets. My neck is sore from rubbernecking, but I'm loving it.
They say a person is trying to sell a third tape, but apparently it's just the Mayor intoxicated. Can't see how that's worth very much as everyone is used to that by now.
And the media seems to be keeping on top of the Mayor and mayor's office vs Police Chief angle. Get kinda irate about people who make their own crappy beds, and then are too scared or egotistical to lie in them so they point fingers elsewhere. Kinda hoping the police eventually get to take down Robbie, heck maybe Dougie too!
The big question is, will city hall be able to force Rob to do anything? Do they have the power? It seems they are quickly all coming to the same conclusion, except Doug of course, but short of making things tough for Rob, do they actually have anything they can do to remove him? I don't think so, but maybe there is a provision somewhere they can use based on Rob coming to work drunk, or something like that.
Someone has compiled an ongoing Rob Ford transgressions catalogue, for those of you wondering if he's a good mayor who happens to do crack.
45 is funny too, I remember him at that game. I was wondering why such a portly fellow would wear a full suit on such a hot day, then I realized it was Rob Ford.
45 is funny too, I remember him at that game. I was wondering why such a portly fellow would wear a full suit on such a hot day, then I realized it was Rob Ford.
#79 shows what kind of person he is and why so many people are enjoying watching him squirm:
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Ford staffers hand out “Rob Ford: Mayor” promotional magnets at the funeral of Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington. When questioned about the allegations of his drug use by reporters as he exits the funeral, Ford tells them, “Have some respect.”
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So basically he's going to get re-elected. Awesome, I can't even imagine where 4 more years of Ford can take us.
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One day after the mayor admitted he smoked crack cocaine a year ago while in a “drunken stupor,” 65 per cent of Toronto voters said Ford should take a leave of absence and deal with substance abuse problems, according to the Forum Research poll.
Taking time off from the mayor’s office and dealing with personal issues improves Ford’s electoral chances if he emerges clean and sober
In a race between the two declared mayoral candidates, Ford would narrowly defeat Karen Stintz by a vote of 38 per cent to 36 per cent, while former budget chief David Soknacki would take one-tenth of the ballots, according to the poll results.
However, if the mayor doesn’t take time off, Stintz would defeat Ford 40 per cent to 34 per cent, with Soknacki taking nine per cent of the votes.
If Ford goes to rehab, comes out all clean and sober and having dropped like 50 pounds, and talks about making amends, I think he wins an election. It says a lot about the other candidates when Ford can be a drunken buffoon who smokes crack and his popularity doesn't drop.
Basically right now he could sit in front of a T.V. camera and stare psychotically at the screen while slowly snapping the necks of kittens and he has a better then average chance of winning.
He becomes the ultimate underdog pity vote if he plays this right, stupid but true.
As a Calgarian who only sees this from afar though, where has the first four years really taken Toronto? Part of the amazing thing is that Ford smokes crack and Toronto is...well Toronto. Seems like everything is pretty much fine?
Maybe that speaks to the mayor as more of a figurehead than anything? Its interesting.
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